December 7 Thu Day 1 Borderlands, Gender and Migration
9:30-9:40 Opening Remarks
9:40-11:30 Panel 1: Neighbor’s Eyes on the Ukrainian War Chair and Commentator:Yoko Aoshima(SRC) Presenters: Akihiro Iwashita (SRC) “Japan’s Geo-politics under the Russia’s War in Ukraine” Joni Virkkunen and Minna Piipponen (University of Eastern Finland, Finland) “Limits of Para-diplomacy: Multi-layered Geopolitics of Finland’s Eastern Border” Noboru Miyawaki (Ritsumeikan University) “Foreign Policy of Mongolia under the Russia’s War in Ukraine”
11:40-12:40 Keynote Lecture: Another Brick in the Wall: B/Ordering through Othering in a World in Turmoil Chair:Edward Boyle (International Research Center for Japanese Studies) Presenter:Elisabeth Vallet (CMR-Saint Jean and University of Quebec, Canada)
14:00-15:50 Panel 2: War and Feminists Chair:Mie Nakachi (Hokusei Gakuen University) Presenters: Oksana Kis (Institute of Ethnology, Ukraine) “Militant Beyond Military: Hybridization of Normative Femininity in Public Discourse During Russia's War against Ukraine” Ella Rossman (University College London, UK) “Russian Feminism in the Last Decade: From Art-Activism and Civic Education to the Anti-War Movement” Commentators: Paula Michaels (Monash University, Australia) Ikuno Ochi (Tohoku University) 16:10-18:00 Panel 3: Anti-War Protests and the New Waves of Migration and LGBTQ Chair:Norio Horie (University of Toyama) Presenters: Irina Meyer-Olimpieva (George Washington University, US) “Volunteering instead of Protesting: Helping Ukrainian Refugees as a Covert Form of Antiwar Resistance in Russia” Alexander Sasha Kondakov (University College Dublin, Ireland) “Russia's Sexual Sovereignty” (tentative) Commentators: Mayu Michigami (Niigata University) Hyunjoo Naomi Chi (Hokkaido University)
December 8 Fri Day 2 Cold War History in Northeast Asia
13:00-15:00 Panel 4: Re-discovering Japan as Actor Chair:David Wolff (SRC) Presenters: Yasuhiro Izumikawa (Aoyama Gakuin University) and Ayako Kusunoki (International Research Center for Japanese Studies) “The Korean War and Japan: Tokyo’s Stealth Activism in Security Policy” Amy King (Australia National University) 【On Zoom】 “Reinterpreting the Past and Rebuilding the New: Constructing Unofficial Cold War Sino-Japanese Relations” Masaya Inoue (Keio University) “Negotiations on the Japan-China Aviation Agreement and LDP Politics, 1973-4” Commentator: James Hershberg (George Washington University)【On Zoom】
15:20-17:20 Panel 5: Critical Junctures across the Region: Taiwan, Mongolia, Korea Chair:Lee Jong Won (Waseda University) Presenters: David Wolff (SRC) “Stalin and Taiwan: 1944-1953” Batbayar Tsedendamba (Institute of History and Ethnology, Mongolia / SRC) “Mongolia's struggle to join the United Nations: Great Power Rivalry and Mongolia's Aspirations (1946-1961)” Yasuhiro Izumikawa (Aoyama Gakuin University) “South Korea's Nordpolitik and Japan: Diplomatic Dynamics in Northeast Asia at the End of the Cold War” Commentator: Sergey Radchenko (Johns Hopkins University SAIS, Italy) 【On Zoom】
17:20-18:00 Wrap-up Discussion
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